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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` The Story of the Port of Prince Rupert '. The first major dock, with a freight shed was built in Prince Rupert in 1907. LEARN more about : Ridley Island, Naval Service of Canada, Skeena River, Klappan Anthracite Basin, Burrard Inlet, Fed Nav, stacker reclaimers, ammunitions wharf, crop-year, Wheat Board marketing, CPR, CNR, and Porpoise Harbour. 202 pages that shed light on the politics of competition between a major B.C. port facility and the one at Churchill, and the whole St. Lawrence Seaway complex. Biblio and appendices at back. Very well illustrated with b/w photographs and at least one b/w map. Cond : Paper wrapper is blue fading ro green with white lettering. Front cover colour photo is of the harbour and city from the air. Bright and crispy CLEAN - in all senses. Collectible ! Giftable ! Scholarly ! Quote (p. 49) : " A typical cargo for a freighter loading at Prince Rupert at the time would be pulp and copper concentrates from the Granisle copper mine below decks, plus a deck load of logs. In 1965, the Port could boast only ._._._. .' Size: 4to. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…